Jacob Babbitt

Jacob Babbitt (9 May 1809-23 December 1862) was a Union Army Major who was mortally wounded at the Battle of Fredericksburg during the American Civil War.

Biography
Jacob Babbitt was born in Bristol, Bristol County, Rhode Island on 9 May 1809, and he was educated at a military academy before becoming a manufacturer and President of the Commercial Bank of Bristol during the 1850s. At the start of the American Civil War, he became a Major of Volunteers in the Union Army, and he served at the 1862 Battle of Fredericksburg, during which he was mortally wounded in the breast and arm; he died of his wounds in Alexandria, Virginia a week later.